Chage and Aska sings You are Free

I love love love this song.

It snowed.

There is no schoo(l) today.

Because the weather is cold.

Yes it’s that cold.
When I looked out of the window, I saw this:

Yesterday, it was like this:

I thought I was dreaming. But it is real!
It has been snowing for two days now.

The snow has stopped. But it is cold… Brrr.

it’s snowing! (part 2)

It’s been snowing non-stop for 2 days now. No school today because of “heavy snow”. The power went out at 2am last night and didn’t come back till 3pm. Together with the water contamination thing I thought I was living in some third world country. Haha. The heater is still not back yet though and [...]

It’s snowing!

It’s the first time I’ve seen it snowing! I’ll upload pictures later but it’s so fun! I’m gonna throw snowballs tomorrow morning!

It’s gonna be so cold next week!

Weekend roundup

This has been an extremely busy week… first I had to hand in my embarassing research paper and then I had a business presentation about some dysfuctional zoo. Anyway, I am so glad it is over and that the weekend is here! Unfortunately, half the weekend has already gone by and it’s actually technically already [...]

Gilles Peterson on Radio 1

I was listening to Gilles Peterson last night on the BBC Radio 1 stream and I fell in love with his show.
The video below is one of the songs played on last night’s show. The song is Zé do Caroço by Seu Jorge. When music gets pared down to just the guitar and the human [...]

soil & “pimp” sessions

Just when I was regretting not bringing my Sunaga t Experience cd, I found Soil & “Pimp” Sessions!

I’m not really sure how to classify their music though. Nu-jazz? Lounge jazz? (but “lounge” itself has bad connotations) Japanese jazz? (How very creative of me.) Actually, there is a distinct difference between Japanese [...]